Kagari Hinata

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Kagari Hinata
Japanese Name	日向 華々莉
Age	Unknown
Weapon	Sword; chakrams

Kagari Hinata (日向 華々莉, Hinata Kagari) is one of the main characters in Puella Magi Suzune Magica. She is the main antagonist and mastermind of the events of the story.

General info

• Height: Unknown
• Weight: Unknown
• Blood type: Unknown
• Eye colour: Red or tyrian purple
• Hair colour: Purple
• Japanese pronoun: Watashi (私)
• Soul gem: Red/tyrian purple gem in the center of a butterfly on her chest.
• Wish: Currently unknown.

Personality

A girl with a playfully cruel nature who takes delight in teasing and tormenting Suzune. She seems to have a soft spot for Matsuri, but isn't afraid to kill her if she gets in the way of her goals. She also shows no remorse in murdering Arisa, nor for any of the other deaths she indirectly caused through altering Suzune's memory.

Powers, Weapons and Abilities

Kagari's magic appears to be illusionary-themed. With her illusion magic, she can change her appearance (as she used this to torment Suzune with an image of Tsubaki), turn invisible, and she can confuse others by using her magic to appear as someone else (as she confused Matsuri by covering Suzune with an illusion of herself). She is also capable of altering people's memories: she used this ability to turn Suzune into a magical girl killer and erase Matsuri's memories of becoming friends with Suzune; however, the person's real memories seem to eventually come back over time, as with Matsuri just before Kagari returns, after Kyubey shows her a vision of Suzune's past, involving Tsubaki. Kagari also appears to have some kind of super-speed power (given she was able to stab Arisa, who was using her own super-speed magic, in the back, and arrive quick enough to kill her before she killed Suzune), and is able to even speed up the corruption of her soul gem somehow, turning herself into a witch. Kagari does this as a last-ditch attempt to kill Suzune, after suffering defeat by both Matsuri and Suzune.

Observations

• Kagari has a definite butterfly motif: the back of her hairstyle vaguely resembles a butterfly, the surrounding decoration of her soul gem is a butterfly, her grief seed has butterflies on it, and the symbol that appears when Suzune briefly shows the magic she absorbed to Matsuri is a butterfly.
  • Kagari's butterfly motif might refer to the phenomenon known as the "butterfly effect", referring to how a small change in time leads to large consequences; Kagari in fact invokes the butterfly effect by altering Suzune's memories slightly and erasing Matsuri's of Suzune, changing their paths in life significantly and with disastrous consequences.
• Present Kagari is never seen outside of her magical girl form.

Trivia

• The first and third kanji for Kagari's name mean "flower", "flashy", or "glamorous" (華) and "jasmine" (莉). The second (々) is a character indicating that the previous kanji and sound (or voiced/unvoiced version) should be repeated. "Kagari" could also mean a cross-stitch (縢) or a basket made of bamboo (篝); more obscurely, it could be read as "deer hunter" (鹿狩) or "god hunter" (神狩).
  • Kagari being named after a flower matches Matsuri and Tsubaki, who are also named after flowers. However, Kagari is the only one of the three who is not named after a specific flower; she is also the only one with two flowers in her name.
• According to tweets from GAN, Kagari was designed in the middle of the story. Her name was taken from the "Kagaribana", or "cyclamen". She is the only main character with only a katakana name in-story because GAN could not find an opportunity to put her kanji name in. (Rest of the tweets needs translation.)

Gallery

Official art

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  From 「twitterまとめ」 by GAN.

Manga pages

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  Kagari's chakrams.

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  Kagari's sword. There isn't a very clear shot of it.

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  Kagari's witch. Note how it resembles a harlequin coming from a book.

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  The inside of the body of Kagari's witch. The outer body seems to be a puppet of sorts, with this silhouette of Kagari being the core or true body.

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  Kagari's grief seed. Note the butterflies.

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  Young Kagari.

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  Young Kagari with her hair down.

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  Kagari toying with Suzune.

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  Kagari blocking one of Matsuri's attacks.

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  Kagari's first appearance. Note how her face above the nose and her twintails are not seen.

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  Kagari reveals herself to Matsuri in her second appearance.

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  Suzune holding Kagari at sword-point.

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  Suzune killing a fake Kagari...

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  ...which changes into a fake Tsubaki to torment Suzune.

Fanart

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